this doesn t happen very often around here buck the great ari melber is dealing with some technical issues so you get a couple more minutes of me, and i am thrilled to get to show you more of this conversation with rosie perez. she talked about her childhood trauma, about grappling with ptsd and also talked about something my colleague rachel maddow and i talked about last night, and that is the mental stress and pain of what happens in the news. here she is talking about the dobbs decision. whey thought about were all the children that could potentially come into this world that will be unwanted, unloved, and abused. there s such a greater you know, it s such a great sin to do that to a child, because when a parent doesn t want a child, the child knows it. i knew it. i knew it. and i just think about all of that, and it breaks my heart. i even called i even called one of my sisters, i call her, from the children s home when that decision came down. and i was like, oh,
primary opponents are very closely watching this and that s where we begin today with grady trimble. he s at the iowa state fair in des moines where some key republicans have been putting out early feelers for 2024. grady, good afternoon. good afternoon, trace. might make your head spin thinking that far ahead when we have mid terms a couple months away. some of the iowa voters i have spoken to think it s too early for potential presidential candidates to stop by. but that s what we re already seeing. in fact, former vice president mike pence will be here this afternoon. officially he s here to stump for senator chuck grassley who is expected to win in november. his trip to the iowa state fair, a popular campaign stop, is fuelling speculation that he might be running in 2024. adding to that is the fact that he was in new hampshire earlier in the week. he s not the first possible candidate to visit either of those two states. senator ted cruz was here in iowa campaigning for
republicans, yet again. no, donald trump is not on the ballot, that is true, but he is casting a big shadow, as he continues to endorse some, and it s not always clear, i might add, who he is endorsing, but more of that in just a moment. the timing is going to be interesting here. it is not just post january six, it is post the first series of january six hearings. whether they see it impacted voters and which way it did. it has not seemed to impact the platforms of candidates in several swing states, some continue to echo the baseless fraud claims. there is a whole slate of them running for top positions like governor, attorney general, secretary of state and senate, you know, consequential officeholders who may be over running elections. also being closely watched, the senate race in missouri. trump has endorsed a erik, okay, but which eric did you mean to endorse, sir? rivals eric greitens and eric schmitt, they both claim that trump met them. trump has yet to clarify it,
misleading attacks on joe biden over to people in trump s circle. the report identifies them as people close to trump and his administration. just as in 2016, this new report out now documents how the democrats white house bid had to contend not only with its own campaign rival, like usual, but also fight on two fronts against a well-funded, armed, independent country with its own agenda. now, there are differences as well. this time many voters may be more on gourd against foreign prop ga da. the russians had a plan for that, too. they tried to get prominent u.s. persons and media conduits to launder their narratives against democrats so russia attacks on biden might seem more american by coming through u.s. officials and audiences. and then there is this. rudy giuliani debunks the impeachment hoax and exposes biden family corruption in ukraine. watch top ukrainian officials testify under oath. the side of the story schiff doesn t want you to hear. that heavy handed prom